For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that we can do in the world, and said, 'Which of them should we do first?'

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.